By Pat Frank

When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.

By Edan Lepucki

After escaping the crumbing ruins of L.A. for a shack in the wilderness, Cal and Frida realize they are pregnant and seek refuge on the nearest settlement - a guarded, dark and paranoid community.

By P.D. James
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In 2021, with the human race becoming extinct due to the infertility of all males, Theodore Faron is drawn into the schemes of an unlikely group of revolutionaries out to save society.

By S.M. Stirling

When a strange electrical storm over the island of Nantucket suddenly causes all electronic devices to cease to function, the world is faced with an unimaginable transformation.

By Peter Heller

Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors.

By Lily Brooks-Dalton

An astronaut who discovers that Mission Control communications have gone silent and an aging scientist at a remote Arctic outpost who stays behind after an evacuation order are haunted by love, memory and regret as the world confronts an uncertain future.

By David Moody

When ordinary people throughout the world suddenly transform into violent killers, one man struggles to retain normalcy and recognize who is trustworthy in a society escalating out of control.

By Alexandra Oliva

Participating in an endurance-based reality show that cuts contestants off from society, a woman stumbles on evidence of massive destruction of unknown origin and gradually realizes that something terrible may be happening in the outside world.

By Octavia E. Butler
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Monday, January 6, 2014. 7 PM.

Set thirty years in the future, a young woman suffering from hyperempathy, to feel others' pain as well as her own, makes a dangerous journey north from Southern California.

By Justin Cronin

A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.

By Lee Konstaninou

A tale set in a near-future dystopian world fraught by celebrity worship, reckless foreign policy, an invasive government surveillance finds oblivious party animal Eliot struggling with his evangelical Christian father’s efforts to breed red heifers in order to prepare for the Rapture, a failing doctoral dissertation on the intellectual property issues of Elvis impersonation, and an evil doppelganger.

By Ben Tripp

Sheriff Danielle Adelman is threatened when her small town of Forest Peak is in danger of being overrun by residents who have suddenly died and become zombies and she flees across the California desert, searching for her missing sister.

By Daniel H. Wilson

Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.

By Neal Stephenson

Five thousand years after a catastrophic event sends a small surviving remnant of humanity into outer space, the progeny of those survivors–seven distinct races now three billion strong–embark on a journey into the unknown to return to Earth.

By Hugh Howey
Series Silo Saga

In a future toxic landscape, a community that lives in an underground silo is rocked by the desire of Sheriff Holston to go outside, setting in motion events that kindle the fire of revolution.

By James Howard Kunstler
Series World Made by Hand

In the wake of global catastrophes that have destroyed industrial civilization, the inhabitants of Union Grove, a small New York town, do anything they can to get by, as they struggle to deal with a new way of life over the course of an eventful summer.

By Max Brooks
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Monday, October 29. 7 PM.

Max Brooks, son of actor Mel Brooks, chronicles the ficticious "zombie wars" that nearly decimated the human population, with first–hand accounts from people who have had a brush with the undead and facts and figures documenting how many undead currently roam the planet.

By Brian K. Vaughan

Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker, discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome.